Ginninderra Press: 334 books

A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as ‘the place where...

When Miss Truelove discovers hatboxes full of papers after her mother’s death, mysteries of her past begin to resolve. She is compelled to tell the story of her eccentric father, Charles Truelove, and the scandals surrounding his name. The Choir of Gravediggers takes us back to late nineteenth century...

'In Threading Raindrops, Michele Fermanis-Winward has fashioned an associative landscape full of the conflicts of the human heart and mind. The reader is buoyed by the honesty and integrity, the gentle ruefulness of this poet's generous observations. The necklace is a perfect symbol for this collection...

As the title suggests, this collection of short stories focuses on a variety of unusual but not atypical emotional and life-style reactions people experience as a result of guilt, compassion, indiscretion, abuse, jealousy, fantasy, loss, sense of mission, and impending death. It provides insight into the strange nature of what it means to be human.

Lively and varied, Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love, grief, outrage, takoyaki, alienation and football. Melinda's other books include Mapless in Underland and First...Then..

Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith's fresh, surprising poems, deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem 'Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements', published in this collection: 'Melinda Smith captures the danger and desire of an illicit relationship "with...

‘These days many individual collections of poetry (and some anthologies as well) are presented in language which all too often, offers the particular experiences of the poets as if they were clues in a cryptic crossword. If we could only put those poetic hints together (we tell ourselves) we’d...

Determined to uncover the truth behind her brother’s sudden death, a young woman returns to the haunting landscape of her youth to confront the town she thought she’d left behind and the secrets they’d rather stay hidden.‘Black Mountain is a deftly written novella- effortlessly building...

We were enjoying a blissful life, making the most of every day. I, the poet, was still rather bemused by the freedoms of retirement and Stephen was doing what he loves – publishing. Our idyll was rudely interrupted when we were told that Stephen had cancer. We were suddenly thrust into an unaccustomed...

In 2013 I started a BA in English and Creative Writing as a mature-age student. After a lecture on poetry, I found myself, much to my surprise, inspired to write poems of my own. Suddenly, out of the recesses of my mind, surfaced memories of myself as a teenager filling notebook after notebook with experiences...

A Turn of Events is a collection of fourteen short stories that will take you into the world of Indian migrants to Australia. Each story explores a different aspect of Indian culture in Australia, and the characters expose the social, cultural, financial and psychological issues that this diaspora...

Edna Taylor’s second book of short stories is about a scarecrow, a dog and a cat, a UFO and dreams. Brief encounters and an anonymous gift, plus strange happenings which can turn one’s life onto unexpected pathways and into a completely new direction. Which only goes to prove that ordinary can turn into extraordinary in the blink of an eye

‘Courage and inspiration are what you feel when you read these exceptional stories of everyday families coping with what life has dealt them. The harsh reality of organ and tissue donation is that we are dealing with life and death. The courage of donor families at a time of tragedy is magnificent...

‘Jane Williams’s poems are inventive and the fun is infectious. A bag full of goodies and a delight to the ear.’ – Harry Laing, author of Shoctopus ‘In these poems, a whole heap of relatives and animals collide and come together in a series of wonderful moments. We overhear the things...